George, Shawn, and Joel discuss how instead of playing the same game as other CRM vendors, Microsoft is changing the rules of the game. In this rapidly changing world, how to balance excitement about what’s new with a real-world outlook. And where should you get started with Azure?

In this episode, Scott Sewell announces his new career in modeling. Data modeling that is. How should you design your Power BI data model to be easy to use for people who aren’t DBA’s? Should you go for granular relationships, or go big, wide, and flat? And how do you have users test your data model to ensure that usability is optimized?

Our Power BI podcast has been rebranded as “Power BI and more” because they are getting longer and Scott has more to talk about.

Microsoft takes the wraps off the next release of Dynamics 365, and Chris Cognetta joins us to make sense of it all. We all agree that this is the biggest release in years, with a whole new edition for SMB, a refreshed user interface, deeper intelligence, and a configurable social pane. But there are also some things that we have now that will be going away–listen to be prepared.

How do you force yourself to finish tasks that you don’t want to finish? Find out some ways we have found effective to break through blocks and get tedious tasks done. Also, why is wasting time important?

Coming Soon

June has been a very busy month at CRM Audio. Coming next month, we will have a lot more about the next release, more productivity enhancing content, and Kieth Mescha joins us to talk about some great tools that the Sonoma team has released that will help with your analytics.